BlockStokes Ranch, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bartlett precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68622. The Survey maps it on the Mignery Ranch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mignery Ranch quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Spalding 2 NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ord quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stokes Ranch between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,079 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2020 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2014 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 February 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,000 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 November 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 October 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 75 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters (historical) | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Mignery Ranch | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Cumminsville | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Koinzan Ranch | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Day Ranch | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Bartlett | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Wheeler (historical) | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Ericson | 17.1 miles | 10 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122555121 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835982. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.